my baby wont eat anything but crickets

[VadersMama]

Hi I was just wondering if you guys had any suggestions on getting my baby beardie to eat anything but crickets? I bought some phoenix worms a little while ago and he wont touch them. He is 8 weeks old, I've been trying to give him a variety of foods but he wont eat anything but the crickets. thank you in advance for any suggestions ^^

 

[Joyce]

I would try a small touch of "tough love". To get my guy to eat some veggies - at 8 weekes it is not as critical as when they get older, I would feed my guy his veggies in the a.m., before he got any crickets. He would eat two or three pieces some days. Now I actually saw him standing at his salad dish eating. Also I have read here a really good suggestion; if you gut load your crickets with fresh greens he will get them this way.

 

[VadersMama]

Yeah hes a little spoiled tho he will run to his food dish and stare at everything in it, and if there is no crickets hell just wait until I go over to his cage and give him some. Its amazing how smart they are! haha :lol:

 

[drakedragon]

Hi I was just wondering if you guys had any suggestions on getting my baby beardie to eat anything but crickets? I bought some phoenix worms a little while ago and he wont touch them. He is 8 weeks old, I've been trying to give him a variety of foods but he wont eat anything but the crickets. thank you in advance for any suggestions ^^

if you havent had him very long i wouldnt worry about him eating other things. you dont want to overwhelm him by getting to eat loads of other things if you havent had him long

 

[VadersMama]

Ok yeah we haven't had him too long but we already switched his food, the people we got him from were feeding him lettuce and mealworms. He had never had a cricket before. He seems to like collard greens a lot guess we got lucky there!